You must understand that being a worshipper has nothing to do with character, good works or righteousness.
The fact that you choose to open every meeting with multiple prayers does not mean that you intend to do what is right. The opening prayer is important. Nothing can work without it. If you gather to discuss how to inflate contracts, begin with an opening prayer. If you are gathered to discuss how to rig elections, begin with a prayer. The Nigerian god appreciates communication.
When you sneak away from your wife to take your side chick’s call in the closet, and she asks if you will come over this weekend, you must answer- in addition to “yes”- “by God’s grace” or “God willing”. It doesn’t matter the language you use. Just add it. The Nigerian god likes to be consulted before you do anything.
When worshipping the Nigerian god, be loud. No, the Nigerian god is not deaf. It’s just that he appreciates your loud enthusiasm, like he appreciates your loud raucous music. The Nigerian god doesn’t care if you have neighbours and neither should you. When you are worshipping in your house, make sure the neighbours can’t sleep. Use loud speakers even if you are only two in the building. Anyone who complains must be evil. God will punish such a person.
Attribute everything to the Nigerian god. So, if you diverted funds from public projects and are able to afford that Benz, when people say you have a nice car, say “na God”. If someone asks what the secret of all your wealth is, say “God has been so good to me”. By this you mean the Nigerian god who gave you the uncommon wisdom to re-appropriate public funds.
Consult the Nigerian god when you don’t feel like working. The Nigerian god understands that we live in a harsh climate where it is hard to do any real work. So, if you have no clue how to be in charge and things start collapsing, ask people to pray to God and ask for his intervention.
The Nigerian god likes elections and politics. When you have bribed people to get the party nomination, used thugs to steal and stuff ballot boxes, intimidate people into either sitting at home or voting for you, lied about everything from your assets to your age, and eventually (through God’s grace) win the elections, you must begin by declaring that your success is the wish of God. It is not your fault whom the Nigerian god chooses to reward with political success. How can mere mortals complain?
The Nigerian god does not tolerate disrespect. If someone insults your religion, you must look for anyone like them and kill them. Doesn’t matter what you use- sticks, machetes, grenade launchers, IEDs, AK47s.
If you worship the Nigerian god, you are under no obligation to be nice or kind to people who are not worshippers. They deserve no courtesy.
We refuse to hold people for their actions because we should “leave it to God”. We don’t correct our mistakes because “it is the will of God”. Break the law at will because “God understands”. Refuse to create and innovate because, after all, “this world is not our home”. The Nigerian god enjoys being used as an excuse for failure.
Are we not ashamed that this is the god we present to the world? Are we not disturbed that this is what we have turned the creator of all that is good and perfect into, because we cannot live by the standards he set?
There is nothing that says a nation cannot be godly and do exploits. Many of the world’s religious centres are models of progressive and the most excellent attitudes to nation building. It was the church that educated the first set of civil servants in Nigeria. The church has always been at the nexus of cultural reorientation in Nigeria. Who can ever forget the work of Mary Slessor, the diminutive nurse who fought against the barbaric culture of killing of twins? And also when we chant “the labour of our heroes past”, we must not forget that some of these heroes are the missionaries.
We have to kill this ‘NIGERIAN GOD” we have chosen- one of mediocrity, double standards and filth- whose sole purpose is to give us wealth and multiply our resources. Making no demands on our character, holding us to no standards and teaching us nothing, this contraption we have put together is a multi-purpose excuse for the failure that we live with everyday.
Surely, God’s heart is broken by what he sees when he looks down upon us. We need to stop disgracing him.
P.S: This is a clarion call on Nigerians to get their Permanent Voters Card and vote in capable hands. That is the only way we can stop disgracing
God. Vote in the right candidates not the party and not because they gave you money you will spend on Groceries in a week. The choice is ours.
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Love and light,
Bubu🌹
Funny enough it takes the grace of God to get a voters card without being harassed.
We will scale through by GOD's Grace.